Two Belated Thank You Notes by Jonathan Bracker

1.Emily Dickinson’s forty-second poem Begins “A day! Help! Help! Another day!”Never considered one of her best, So far as I know it has not been anthologized. I love that yelp of hers! Thank you, Lavinia, For having disregarded your sister’s explicitInstructions to upon her death destroy her neatly-tiedOne thousand seven hundred seventy-five Attempts to write a “letter to the World.”  2.Thank you too, Belknap Press of Harvard University,For … Continue reading Two Belated Thank You Notes by Jonathan Bracker

How He Took That Bit of Advice by Jonathan Bracker

“I don’t think you ought to write poems, Not if you want to get ahead, About your homosexuality” She calmly states, almost wholly at ease With the early-middle-aged college buddy Come for his annual visit. In the sprawling living room, cats resting or coming in, Matissed in shorts and sleeveless shirt at one end of the sofa She smiles at him her boyish smile. Cashews … Continue reading How He Took That Bit of Advice by Jonathan Bracker